Coffin Moon, set in 1975, features protagonist Duane Minor, a man rebuilding his life after returning home with PTSD from the Vietnam War. He is a recovering alcoholic and works as a bartender in his wife’s family's bar. Duane and his wife Heidi are raising their teenage niece Julia, who has emotional scars of her own from her troubled past. The makeshift family is fighting and striving for stability and peace.
While working at the bar, Duane encounters a dark and malignant force named John Varley, who tears at the threadbare fabric holding together all that he loves. Duane is then thrust into a depressive and alcohol induced state while Julia seethes with a need for revenge.
The two embark on a journey of hide-and-seek with Varley, a vampire criminal with a trail of bodies and a bloody history. The duo becomes entangled in a supernatural world that tests loyalty and the love of family. The desire for vengeance takes Duane and Julia from Portland, Oregon, across the highways to North Dakota. The brutality and body counts rise while Varley grapples with loss of his own, his humanity, or what little remains. The three are saturated with a grief that is palpable and a need to avenge that is all-consuming.
Coffin Moon is an emotional and visceral vampire tale with memorable characters that are well-developed. Rosson’s telling of the vampire story is not simply a horror offering but a homogeneous blend of gore-soaked revenge laced with heartache and loss. Duane, Julia and Varley share their tales through their perspective, which makes the past events more dynamic. I was glued to the story and Rosson's central question – once our humanity is lost, can it be reclaimed and at what cost?
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